Jan Fabre/Troubleyn [BE]

MOUNT OLYMPUS To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance

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24.09.2016

> The show starts at 4 PM. Exceptionally, the ticket office will open at 2 PM. After your ticket has been scanned at the ticket office, you will receive a wristband that allows you to come in and out freely. Please be on time to avoid long queues!> The Akenkaai will not be accessible from the Sainctelettesquare. If you’re looking for parking spaces, you can reach this car park via the Ruimingskaai.

Climb the mountain

In Mount Olympus. To glorify the cult of tragedy, a 24-hour performance, a slice of history comes to life before your eyes. Climb this mountain and become part of a monumental happening. For a whole twenty-four hours.

It is the time when tragedy was born. But what exactly is it, this state of being torn, this obscenity, this chastening? You recognise the outlines of stories and characters in Greek tragedy, both close up and infinitely far off.

Jan Fabre shatters these broken figures with violence, ecstasy and Homeric laughter. What is left is not an update of Greek tragedy, but scattered fragments. For twenty-four hours you join in, looking for that which cannot in fact be shown, which tears us roughly apart, and then cleanses us.

Time claims the second leading role. What is time in theatre, and what happens when you stretch it to extremes? In Fabre’s hands, the eternal here and now of the theatre assumes riotous forms. An endless maelstrom of images carries you off to a different, labyrinthine time.

The 27 performers speak a language that falters, goes quiet, rattles, or ends in a scream. A still, internal force dictates their movements and dance. They awaken and sleep on stage. Fabre pays tribute to their beauty by transforming their stolen dreams into images. With a cast that covers four generations, he has never before presented such an all-encompassing image of his work for theatre, spanning over 30 years.